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...Thai security officials say interrogations of those apprehended reveal that most of their leaders are young ustaz, or Islamic teachers, who spent their formative years in Pakistan and Afghanistan, many of them returning to Thailand as recently as a few years ago. This generation imbibed the heady, radical ideas swirling through the madrasahs after the mujahedin's success against the Soviets in Afghanistan. And many brought the idea of jihad back home with them. "We're not saying all these men are terrorists, of course," says General Pisarn Wattanawongkeeree, commander of the roughly 8,000 troops charged with keeping peace...
...region hoping for a chance encounter, the U.S. command is now engaged in a slow but probably more effective tactic of trying to win over Pashtun villagers by digging wells and giving away tractors and generators. The hope is that someday a villager might trust the Americans enough to reveal some useful intelligence about bin Laden or other enemies...
...approached wearing a black balaclava that disguised his identity despite his brightly-colored traditional peasant garb. He led me into a barn that was only lit by the sun filtering between the cracks in the rough boards of the walls. My eyes slowly adjusted to the darkness to reveal two other men and a woman seated on a bench in the corner who were similarly dressed and disguised. As I sat in front of them I noticed an AK-47 leaning just to the left of the first man. Even as my hands shook harder, I took out my notepad...
...afterwards was reminiscent of the U.S. women’s soccer team celebration after its defeat of China in the final of the 1999 Women’s World Cup. In Brandi Chastain form, the women’s hockey team in the stands tore off their shirts to reveal black sports bras...
...open to work anywhere in the world," he says, "including the United States, of course." He recently made an indie drama, The King, set in Texas, in which he plays William Hurt's son. He is reputed to have turned down some big Hollywood roles, though he won't reveal which ones, "because that's not professional to say." But he is ready for his American close-up and at ease with his impending eminence. "Some things you can control, like the performance you give. But stardom is just a consequence. It's not important, but I am able...